Allstar node Scheduler Help

I’ve recently created a new Allstar node, and I’m working my way through some issues. One issue is that every hour, on the hour, the node transmits a dead carrier for 3 minutes, then there’s a CW message telling me it’s a timeout. Then the node unkeys.

Very early on in the process of bringing my new node alive, the node was transmitting the time (in voice) at the top of the hour. So I have to believe this was the same process which is now working incorrectly. And perhaps I did something at some point to cause it to error out.

I’ve searched through all the conf files in /etc/asterisk and the only reference to any sort of schedule is in rpt.conf. In the [schedule...] section, the only two lines (which reference a macro to be run on the hour) are both commented out with semi-colons. I did not comment them out. I would think since they are commented out, they’d not be running .. unless there’s something somewhere else triggering this behavior.

Where else can I see what is going on with a schedule? Any thoughts on how to (1) in the short term, disable this scheduled event, and (2) in the long term, fix it so that it works properly?

I have an extensive IT background but not much familiarity with Linux OS, so go easy on me.

Steve N7TX

Which version of allstar are you running? ASL v1.01 or Hamvoip ? If your schedule is all commented out and something is still keying on the hour but not announcing the time, check the cron. may have to be user root.

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Nathan Hardman

nhardman1428@gmail.com

N8THN@ARRL.NET

Run asterisk in the foreground with some verbosity ( asterisk -r -vvv) from putty or console and watch the screen for live events to see what is being called.

...mike/kb8jnm

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On 11/9/2018 2:22 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:

I’ve recently created a new Allstar node, and I’m working my way through some issues. One issue is that every hour, on the hour, the node transmits a dead carrier for 3 minutes, then there’s a CW message telling me it’s a timeout. Then the node unkeys.

Very early on in the process of bringing my new node alive, the node was transmitting the time (in voice) at the top of the hour. So I have to believe this was the same process which is now working incorrectly. And perhaps I did something at some point to cause it to error out.

I’ve searched through all the conf files in /etc/asterisk and the only reference to any sort of schedule is in rpt.conf. In the [schedule...] section, the only two lines (which reference a macro to be run on the hour) are both commented out with semi-colons. I did not comment them out. I would think since they are commented out, they’d not be running .. unless there’s something somewhere else triggering this behavior.

Where else can I see what is going on with a schedule? Any thoughts on how to (1) in the short term, disable this scheduled event, and (2) in the long term, fix it so that it works properly?

I have an extensive IT background but not much familiarity with Linux OS, so go easy on me.

Steve N7TX
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Thanks for the suggestion. I’m running a hamvoip instance on RPi 3. I’ve captured the logs. Here’s what is happening:

After 3 min of hang time, I get “TO” in CW (presumably that is “time out”). Then a new line is generated to the log which says:

<DAHDI ...> playing /tmp/current-time

Then I get two separate lines that say:
Hungup ‘DAHDI pseudo...’

There IS a file in /tmp named “current-time.gsm”. I don’t know what the .gsm extension means though. The file is not a text file.

What is “DAHDI”?
Any thoughts on how this is scheduled?
And why it’s erroring out?

Thanks

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On Nov 9, 2018, at 13:34, Mike <mm@midnighteng.com> wrote:

Run asterisk in the foreground with some verbosity ( asterisk -r -vvv) from putty or console and watch the screen for live events to see what is being called.

...mike/kb8jnm

On 11/9/2018 2:22 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
I’ve recently created a new Allstar node, and I’m working my way through some issues. One issue is that every hour, on the hour, the node transmits a dead carrier for 3 minutes, then there’s a CW message telling me it’s a timeout. Then the node unkeys.

Very early on in the process of bringing my new node alive, the node was transmitting the time (in voice) at the top of the hour. So I have to believe this was the same process which is now working incorrectly. And perhaps I did something at some point to cause it to error out.

I’ve searched through all the conf files in /etc/asterisk and the only reference to any sort of schedule is in rpt.conf. In the [schedule...] section, the only two lines (which reference a macro to be run on the hour) are both commented out with semi-colons. I did not comment them out. I would think since they are commented out, they’d not be running .. unless there’s something somewhere else triggering this behavior.

Where else can I see what is going on with a schedule? Any thoughts on how to (1) in the short term, disable this scheduled event, and (2) in the long term, fix it so that it works properly?

I have an extensive IT background but not much familiarity with Linux OS, so go easy on me.

Steve N7TX
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hamvoip … how do I check the cron?

Thanks

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N8THN@ARRL.NET

var/spool/cron/crontabs

Pete

KD2ARB

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Steve, the hamvoip site discusses this topic directly on their website. It’s about page 19 in the pdf version.

tnx
Mike / W5JR

Alpharetta GA

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On Nov 9, 2018, at 5:39 PM, Steve Thompson steve.n7tx@gmail.com wrote:

hamvoip … how do I check the cron?

Thanks

On Nov 9, 2018, at 13:22, Nate Hardman nhardman1428@gmail.com wrote:

Which version of allstar are you running? ASL v1.01 or Hamvoip ? If your schedule is all commented out and something is still keying on the hour but not announcing the time, check the cron. may have to be user root.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:22 PM Steve Thompson steve.n7tx@gmail.com wrote:

I’ve recently created a new Allstar node, and I’m working my way through some issues. One issue is that every hour, on the hour, the node transmits a dead carrier for 3 minutes, then there’s a CW message telling me it’s a timeout. Then the node unkeys.

Very early on in the process of bringing my new node alive, the node was transmitting the time (in voice) at the top of the hour. So I have to believe this was the same process which is now working incorrectly. And perhaps I did something at some point to cause it to error out.

I’ve searched through all the conf files in /etc/asterisk and the only reference to any sort of schedule is in rpt.conf. In the [schedule…] section, the only two lines (which reference a macro to be run on the hour) are both commented out with semi-colons. I did not comment them out. I would think since they are commented out, they’d not be running … unless there’s something somewhere else triggering this behavior.

Where else can I see what is going on with a schedule? Any thoughts on how to (1) in the short term, disable this scheduled event, and (2) in the long term, fix it so that it works properly?

I have an extensive IT background but not much familiarity with Linux OS, so go easy on me.

Steve N7TX


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